Neville High School Class of 1968 – 

Ellen Demetra (Pappas) Balfour passed away peacefully on July 19, 2025, at CC Young Hospice in Dallas, Texas, after a courageous thirteen-year battle with breast cancer.

Ellen was born on February 1, 1950, in Monroe, Louisiana. She graduated from Neville High School and went on to attend Centenary College and the University of Southwestern Louisiana. She began her professional career as the Executive Director of the March of Dimes in Monroe. It was while organizing their annual Halloween charity event that she fell in love with one of the haunted house “ghouls” and began a marriage that would span nearly five decades.